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cy-christin/xrw-alubm

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70TypeScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

A Remix and Cloudflare Pages powered photo gallery frontend with a justified layout, lightbox viewer, dark and light themes, and Turnstile bot protection.

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    What it does
      Photo gallery frontend
      Justified layout
      Lightbox viewer
    Tech stack
      Remix
      Cloudflare Pages
      Cloudflare D1
      Turnstile
    Use cases
      Host a photo gallery
      Gate access with bot check
      Deploy via Cloudflare
    Audience
      Frontend developers
      Cloudflare users

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Run a photo gallery site with a justified masonry layout and lightbox viewer.

USE CASE 2

Gate access to a gallery behind a bot verification check before serving content.

USE CASE 3

Deploy a Remix frontend to Cloudflare Pages backed by a D1 database.

What is it built with?

TypeScriptRemixCloudflare PagesCloudflare D1Turnstile

How does it compare?

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Stars707070
LanguageTypeScriptTypeScriptTypeScript
Last pushed2022-06-22
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity3/52/52/5
Audiencedeveloperdevelopergeneral

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Needs Cloudflare D1, Turnstile secret keys, and wrangler configured before it runs.

No license is stated in the README.

In plain English

Xrw-alubm, also called A Light Archive, is the frontend for a photo gallery website built with Remix and deployed on Cloudflare Pages, using Cloudflare D1 as its database and Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection. A live version of the site is linked from the README. Visually, it uses a warm, archive style look with both dark and light themes that follow the system setting or can be switched manually. Photos are shown in a justified, waterfall style layout, and clicking one opens a lightbox with a thumbnail strip that supports keyboard, arrow key, and touch swipe navigation between images. Before a visitor can browse the gallery, they pass through a Turnstile human verification check, after which their access is tracked with a cookie based session. To run it locally, you install dependencies with npm, copy the example environment file and fill in a session secret and a Turnstile secret key, then start the development server. All of the gallery data is read from Cloudflare D1, with the exact table structure defined inside the route loader files rather than in a separate schema file, and the project's Cloudflare bindings and configuration live in its wrangler.toml file. Deploying the site is a single command that builds the Remix app and pushes it to Cloudflare Pages, with production secrets set separately through Cloudflare's own secret storage command rather than committed to the repository. The README notes that this repository is a one time open source snapshot of the frontend code at a particular point, and it may not be kept in sync with ongoing changes to the live site going forward.

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Prompt 1
Explain how the Turnstile verification and cookie session work together in this repo.
Prompt 2
Walk me through setting up the local dev environment for this Remix and D1 project.
Prompt 3
Where in this codebase is the Cloudflare D1 table structure defined?
Prompt 4
Show me the steps to deploy this Remix app to Cloudflare Pages.

Frequently asked questions

What is xrw-alubm?

A Remix and Cloudflare Pages powered photo gallery frontend with a justified layout, lightbox viewer, dark and light themes, and Turnstile bot protection.

What language is xrw-alubm written in?

Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes TypeScript, Remix, Cloudflare Pages.

What license does xrw-alubm use?

No license is stated in the README.

How hard is xrw-alubm to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is xrw-alubm for?

Mainly developer.

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